Bruce Cohen has published five volumes of poetry: Disloyal Yo-Yo (Dream Horse Press), which was awarded the 2007 Orphic Poetry Prize, Swerve (Black Lawrence Press), Placebo Junkies Conspiring with the Half-Asleep (Black Lawrence Press) and No Soap, Radio! (Black Lawrence Press). His most recent manuscript, Imminent Disappearances, Impossible Numbers & Panoramic X-Rays, was awarded the Green Rose Prize (New Issues Press). His poems and essays have appeared in many literary periodicals including AGNI, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Harvard Review, The New Yorker, The North American Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, & The Southern Review as well as being featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily & The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day. In 2020 he received a Pushcart Prize. Prior to joining the creative writing faculty at the University of Connecticut in 2012, for thirty years, he developed and implemented nationally recognized academic support programs for student-athletes at the University of Arizona, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Connecticut. He lives in Coventry Connecticut with his wife, Leslie Johnson. They have three grown sons.